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CDI i i r- r-r i p. p. I 'MI i THEAEIZONA.REPUBIIC finance Business Real Esta te A Sunday, July 21, 1968 Rare Election Beam Welding Unit to Make Debut In Valley Soon Is Only One of Its Kind in the West Campbell dent Sam DeMuro, will necessitate expanding the local payjoll by about 100 new employes. Actually, DeMuro said, the electron beam welding process was the subject of a patent application dating back to 1906, but it remained for the development of the electron beam gun for use in vacuum and television tubes by Bell Telephone Laboratories' J. R.

Pierce to give the idea feasibility. It was in the mid-1950s, DeMuro said, that Dr. J. A. Storh of France's atomic energy commission conceived the idea of beefing up the strength of the electron beam and adapting it to welding via a gun specially designed for this purpose.

Even then, according to Louis Mc-Nabb, who heads Mech-Tronics' research and development division at Melrose Park and who will move here in a By DON G. CAMPBELL Business and Financial Editor The problem is as old as mankind. There are these two things, and necessity dictates that they be bound together in some way an ax head to a stout wooden handle, or two heavy timbers for a roof support. Human inventiveness supplied the know-how to bind the parts together, first with vines and then with rope. The nail, the screw and the bolt made their appearance, but then the growing use of metal began presenting its own special problems.

While bolting and riveting became the accepted technique and was adequate for most purposes, both required a cumbersome overlapping of the parts to be joined and the introduction of a third VI -Iff (Section F) Page 1 Grand Opening Slated for New Tri-City Mall An Aug. 14 opening was announced yesterday for Grant Malouf's $10 million Tri-City Mall in Mesa. A four-day celebration will be held. The 38-store complex designed by architect Glenn A. McColluum has been under construction for a year in a onetime alfalfa field on U.

S. 60-70-80-89 or Apache Boulevard, across the road from the University of Arizona experimental farm. The mall is designed to serve residents of the east side of the Valley. It has 500,000 square feet of space including 50,000 square feet of covered, air-conditioned malls. The shopping center's 700-foot-long main mall runs east and west, with one of the major tenants, J.

C. Penney situated in the middle facing the main entrance and driveway. Tri-City's other major department store Diamond's, is under construction and will open as the west anchor of the center early in the fall of 1969. More than a million square feet of parking area that will accommodate cars surrounds the center. In addition to providing the area a modern, regional marketplace for more than 150,000 residents in adjacent communities, Tri-City Mall will create an economic shot in the arm with a total employment of more than 1,000 persons when all stores are completed.

Continued On Page 5-F IS "1 similar capacity, the EBW was still, largely, a creature of the laboratory. "The EBW gun and associated equipment had limitations when first pur-chased several years ago," McNabb said. "We spent 4 years developing several patents on the process, and undoubtedly the most significant achievement is the creation of an automated process that enables us to weld hundreds of components in a batch." THIS PUTS the Phoenix arm of the firm, McNabb believes, in the position of being the first company in the country to place into operation an EBW machine with this mass production capacity. "This means that electron beam welding is no longer limited to exotic aerospace products and can now produce many ordinary commercial items," McNabb said. In operation that resembles a laser of electronis that resembles a laser beam.

"When the electrons strike the metals to be joined," McNabb explains, "their speed changes from 70,000 miles per second to nearly zero. At this point, kinetic energy is converted to thermal energy, and the heat causes the metal to melt and fuse. So fine, so precise is the electron beam and so intense its heat that fusion takes place far more rapidly and in a much smaller area than ever before possible." THE GUN, therefore, is capable of rapidly welding a wide variety of mate-' rials ranging from a half-thousandth (.0005) foil to 3 inches thick, and leaving a bead the surface scar that is, literally, microscopic. Projections now under way in Illinois, which are utilizing the EBW unit that will be moved here, include: the welding of parts for a rocket engine starter, motor armatures for torpedoes, gyro rotors used on helicopters and in jet aircraft guidance systems, vibration transducers for jet engines, focus coils for the linear accelerator slated for the Weston, atomic energy research site now under construction, and gas storage bottles used in spacecraft landing gear. FOR PHOENDC, the implications of the new facility being built here are impressive.

As the only automated process of its type in this part of the country, it will serve, both DeMuro and McNabb feel, as a tremendous magnet for the aerospace community both here and on the West Coast. IN MALL Stone-enclosed, interior mall display window is checked by developer Grant Malouf, left, and project coordinator Bob Malouf at $10-million Tri-City Mall in Mesa, now nearing completion. binding agent. BLACKSMITHS, conceived the principle of welding metals together first and accomplished it by heating the edges of the two metals to be joined until they were soft and then hammering them together until they fused. Ironically, though, it wasn't until World War I came along and the necessity for greater speed in metal fabricating became critical that even the relatively crude welding techniques then in use became widespread.

And it remained for World War II to encourage the dramatic improvements in the sophisticated electric arc, oxyacetylene and thermite surface fusion techniques so common today. Commonplace techniques today, perhaps, but relatively crude when compared to the electron beam welding process that will make its debut in Phoenix early next year. Only a few years away from being a laboratory curiosity, the ultrasophisticated equipment is one of only about two dozen such units that have been built, one of only a handful that aren't used exclusively for their owners' own work, and the only one of its kind in the West that will be available for general contract jobs. THE EBW UNIT will be the heart of a new $2 million expansion of Mech-Tronics Corp's Phoenix facilities, 2515 E. Buckeye Road, ground breaking for which is expected to take place in August and with completion slated for early 1969.

The transfer of the $250,000 EBW unit from Mech-Tronics' plant at Melrose Park, 111., according to presi SEC Sues on alley General Time Bid Agency's Surprise Move Focuses Wall Street Eyes on Mesa New York Times Service NEW YORK According to an apocryphal story, the real reason behind Franz G. Talley's struggle for control of the General Time Corp. is that he wants to take up residence in the concern's side of Istanbul, Franz Talley is a balance-sheet man and his reasons for at tempting a take-over of General Time are more financial than esthetic. IN THE PROLIFERATION of corporate mergers that has swept American industry in recent years, few proxy fights have attracted so much attention on Wall Street as the Talley Industries year on less than one-third the sales volume, even though government business is supposed to involve slim profit margins. The second and no doubt more important reason is that general time, in its own words, has "one of the largest distribution networks in American industry." The concern has 150,000 retail outlets for its clocks and Continued On Page 4-F INSIDE Tool engineer Edward Konstant prepares to weld metals in facsimile transmitter and receiver to automated electron beam welding machine at Mech-Tronics Corp.

opulent headquarters in Stamford, Conn. The two-story structure, surrounded by a moat with gurgling fountains, is shaped like a flying saucer. Each of the doors of the 19 executive suites on the second floor was hand-carved in Hong Kong. The floors are covered with ta Sri Private Firm Builds Spring Training Plant For AUs New Seattle Pilots Baseball Team Player Factory struggle to gain control of General Time. i What makes the situation unique is that the Securities and Exchange Commission has jumped into the fray with a lawsuit that could establish a precedent with sweeping ramifications for the mushrooming take-over movement.

The SEC's suit, charging that Talley Industries and a mutual fund acted illegally in acquiring their General Time Shares, also has broad significance for the growing role of mutual funds in corporate management. Talley pestries from Sweden and the furniture is Fritz Hansen and Arne Jacobsen from Denmark. Albeit the building is probably one of the most startling corporate edifices this Pipes to Carry The protagonists in the take-over battle are not, to be sure, giants of try, although General Time is perhaps the leading American manufacturer of timepieces. Its brand names are well-known Westclox, Big Ben, Baby Ben and Seth Thomas, among others. TALLEY INDUSTRIES, of which the German-born Talley is the president and driving force, provides a study in contrasts.

Outside of the government and the armed services, the concern is little known and before its involvement with Pulverized Coal Across Arizona By JOHN J. FUHRMAN KAYENTA Thar's gold in them thar hills! The black gold of coal, that At Black Mesa, 32 miles southwest of this northeastern Arizona Indian community, the Peabody Coal Co. of St. Louis is looking ahead to January 1970, when a 20th century technique of delivering coal to the consumer is scheduled to be in operation. AT THAT TIME, coal which has been strip mined from a field will be pulverized, then mixed with water, after which the fluid will be pumped 292 miles through a pipeline to its destination on the Nevada xanks of the Colorado River at Bullhead City.

Ultimately the product will be the fuel for a huge steam-electric generating plant operated by Commonwealth Edison Co. of California. BASEBALL FACTORY Tempe Double Butte blossoms in baseball stadium, right, and training fields, left, as Baseball Facilities, prepares for spring arrival of new American League Seattle Pilots baseball team, inaugurating start of new industry for Valley. General Time it could even have been called obscure. Eighty per cent of its business comes from government contracts and its key product, among about 150 in all, is a ballistic ejection system for military aircraft.

The system is used in most military planes. "Over the past eight years, we have saved the lives of approximately 7,000 fliers using our system," Talley says. In the fiscal year ending March 31, Talley reported net incom eof $3.6 million on sales of $34.09 million, for a return of 10.6 per cent. General Time recorded a net of $3.88 million on sales of $129.5 million in 1967, for a return of 2.9 per cent. Talley is an engineer-turned-businessman who has spent 38 of his 48 years in the United States.

In the eight years since he set up Talley Industries in a sparsely populated part of Arizona near Mesa, he has built up a reputation as a shrewd dealer on Wall Street. HE HAS MADE three small acquisitions this year, but never before has he tackled anything as big as General Time. In an interview in New York this week Talley declined to discuss the situation concerning General Time or any aspect of the pending litigation involving his company and General Time. The Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the case tomorrow. terstate 10 at an interchange only a mile away.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS and possibly a garden-type plant or two will be located near to the freeways. The site will be only four minutes from Sky Harbor Airport when the proposed 40th Street entrance is opened, Smith said. The site of 115.5 acres was leased for 99 years from the City of Tempe for $1 a year in return for buildings of the E. B. SMITH Heads Baseball Facilities, Inc.

lake will be used as a holding pond for water for the facility's sprinkler system. The lake will be beautified with palm trees and shrubbery. Around it will be a concrete walk, and surrounding the whole lake development will be a nine-hole pitch and putt golf course. The 100-room motel, a $3.5 million development, will overlook the lake. It will include a coffee shop, dining room and bar, and a 650-seat convention facility.

Smith said he has been negotiating with Ramada Inns and Rodeway Inns on the motel development. THE FAMILY HEALTH club is projected as a $1 million facility to occupy 10 acres in the area south of the saddle between the two buttes and overlook the baseball stadium and training fields. The planning calls for a 50-meter swimming pool, diving tank, 10 handball and six tennis courts, steam and sauna baths and club and entertainment rooms. Work on the baseball factory is moving toward Jan. 15 completion.

It aims at combining in a single complex all the training facilities for the Seattle Pilots and their minor league teams, THE FACILITIES will be used for All of this is a far cry from 1100 to 1150 A.D., when the Anasazi Indians, earliest known inhabitants of this region, apparently used coal in the firing of their pottery and ornaments. The An-asazis, according to discoveries made only this summer, also heated their underground pueblos and cooked their meals with the black fuel. By A. V. GULLETTE Associate Business and Financial Editor Tempe Double Butte, the 190-foot volcanic upthrust almost on the Phoenix-Tempe city line, is coming to life as the site of a $3.5 million-a-year industry.

A baseball player factory is being built on the southern flanks of the buttes. The factory will cost $500,000 and center around a stadium, spring training quarters of the new American League Seattle Pilots. AND SURROUNDING the buttes will be several million dollars worth of supporting facilities a 100-room motel to start with, a health club and a wide assortment of apartments. "It will be like having another Motorola plant," said E. B.

Smith, president of Baseball Facilities, which signed the Seattle baseball team to a 20-year contract for the buttes training site. He said Seattle team executives esti mate $400,000 a year will be spent in the Valley with the opening of spring training next year. And then, according to economic projections, Smith said, Seattle fans and other visitors attracted by the baseball facility will pump more dollars into the Valley economy, reaching $3.5 million to $5 million in a few years. "THIS IS GOING to be a tremendous stimulant for Tempe business," Smith said. "Just take the city sales tax alone.

On a $4 million total, it'll amount to $40,000 a year." Smith calls the location a natural for development. The property lies between Interstate 10 and 48th Street. It is just south and east of Double Butte Cemetery and extends south to Alameda. Access from Interstate 10 is by way of the 48th Street Interchange, only a half-mile from one entrance. To the south, Superstition Freeway ties Into In facility at no cost to the city.

The baseball complex will require 25 acres, leaving 90 acres for development purposes. Smith has engaged Environmental Planning Consultants, a group of Arizona State University faculty members, to do master planning for the development. A. WAYNE SMITH, consultant, said proposals call for plush apartments on the higher elevations, which offer view locations. A feature of the master plan is a 2-acre lake along Interstate 10.

The PEABODY has a 99-year lease to mine the coal on the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations on Black Mesa, where the elevation is 6,350 feet. William Kennedy, resident engineer at the site for the past 3V4 years, estimated that Peabody has already spent $3 million In experimental work. Among the projects was the drilling of more than 8,000 test holes. Continued On Page 4-F But discussions with Wail Street sources indicate that Talley decided to make a pitch for General Time for two reasons. The first is that he believes his brand of management can improve General Time profits.

Talley Industries, after all, earned almost as much as General Time last spring training and an Instructional Continued On Page 4-F.